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"Feminist Review" is the UK's leading feminist journal. A combination of the academic and the activist, it has an acclaimed position within women's studies courses and the women's movement. This issue of "Feminist Review" offers a current feminist reading and analysis of ethnicity. It ranges from an analysis of the social geographies of whiteness in the USA to a variety of perspectives on the break-up of Yugoslavia and how this has been experienced by women living with the political realities of civil war.
This issue of "Feminist Review" contains a range of articles which discuss pressing contemporary issues for feminists. Shireen Hassim's analysis of gender issues in Inkatha looks at the ways in which Zulu nationalism has legitimated forms of male power through a return to "tradition" and "the family". Lama Abnu Odeh in "Post-Colonialism, Feminism and the Veil" explores the complexities of her own and other women's attitudes to the veil - that most potent symbol of Islamic culture. Jane Lewis reflects in her article on the way in which the menopause and HRT have become subjects of intensive debate amongst the medical profession and social science researchers, and aims to place feminist concerns within this agenda. Jenny Morris challenges feminists to think about disability by arguing that it has never been central to the mainstream feminist agenda and that feminist analysis has an important contribution to make to the understanding of disability. Finally Anna Marie Smith addresses the concerns of the Feminists Against Pornography.
This collection of articles on women's issues should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics of women's studies, cultural studies, sociology, women's history and literature, as well as the general reader.
Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms brings together international debates on the discourses and practices of contemporary feminisms. Discussions range across conflicting analyses of gender and politics at the UN conference at Beijing; nationalism and religious conflict in contemporary India; Re-imaginings of science and subjectivity in anglophone science fiction; and the political and intellectual complexities at stake in the project of lesbian studies in the UK. Contributions from these diverse fields come together to give critical attention to the complex terrain of Feminism in the 1990s.
This text is concerned with the interrelationship of gender and the circuits of consumption, distribution, production and reproduction. It considers the different ways in which gender intervenes in all parts of the circuit and the linkages between the different elements. In opening up these questions, the book invites a rethinking of the production/distribution/consumption circuit in relation to the new regimes of accumulation, power and politics produced by late capitalism at the end of the millennium.
Debating Discourses, Practising Feminisms brings together international debates on the discourses and practices of contemporary feminisms. Discussions range across conflicting analyses of gender and politics at the UN conference at Beijing; nationalism and religious conflict in contemporary India; Re-imaginings of science and subjectivity in anglophone science fiction; and the political and intellectual complexities at stake in the project of lesbian studies in the UK. Contributions from these diverse fields come together to give critical attention to the complex terrain of Feminism in the 1990s.
A unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist Review has an acclaimed position within women's studies courses and the women's movement. It publishes and reviews work by women; featuring articles on feminist theory, race, class and sexuality, women's history, cultural studies, black and third world feminism, poetry, photography, letters and much more.
A unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist Review has an acclaimed position within women's studies courses and the women's movement. It publishes and reviews work by women; featuring articles on feminist theory, race, class and sexuality, women's history, cultural studies, black and third world feminism, poetry, photography, letters and much more.
Consuming Cultures is concerned with the interrelationship of gender and the circuits of consumption, distribution, production and reproduction. The book looks at the ways in which gender intervenes in all parts of the circuit or the linkages between different elements.
A unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist
Review has an acclaimed place within women's studies courses and
the women's movement.
A unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist
Review has an acclaimed place within women's studies courses and
the women's movement.
Citizenship: Pushing the Boundaries brings together global perspectives and issues of citizenship in particular regional and national contexts. It comprehensively covers contemporary feminist debates on citizenship such as: citizenship as a status bestowing rights and responsibilities, passive and active citizenship, and the distinctions and interconnections between the public and private citizen.
A unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist
Review has an acclaimed place within women's studies courses and
the women's movement.
A combination of the activist and the academic, "Feminist Review" has an acclaimed place within women's studies courses and the women's movement. It is produced by a London-based editorial collective and publishes and reviews work by women. It features articles on feminist theory, race, class and sexuality, women's history, cultural studies, Black and Third World feminism, poetry, photography and letters. This issue contains articles concerned with questions of sexuality: how ten-year-old girls and young women in their early 20s handle their relations with the opposite sex; images of sexuality in pornography and feminist photography; and historical change in the way in which cross-dressing is associated with lesbianism.
Contents: Women, Nationalism and Islam in Contemporary Political Discourse in Iran "Nahid Yeganeh;" Feminism, Citizenship and National Identity "Ann Curthoys;" Remapping and Renaming: New Cartographies of Identity, Gender and Landscape in Ireland "Catherine Nash;" Poem: Easter 1991 "Maighread Medbh;" Family Feuds: Gender, Nationalism and the Family "Anne McClintock;" Women as Activists; Women as Symbols: A Study of the Indian Nationalist Movement "Suruchi Thapar;" Gender, Nationalism and National Identities: Bellagio Symposium Report "Catherine Hall;" Culture or Citizenship? Notes from the Gender and Colonialism Conference, Galway, Ireland, May 1992 "Clara Connolly;" Plus: Reviews, Noticeboard.
This theme issue is an exploration of the way in which feminist
ideas appear in popular forms, especially feminist novelists, such
as Angela Carter and Marge Piercy, have handled particular issues;
it considers writing and it duscusses the popular genres that have
been taken up by feminist writers - lesbian romance and stories for
teenagers.
First Published in 1992. A theme issue on women and health: from the selling of HRT to the art of a cancer survivor. Plus a special feature on AIDS and HIV activism.
The 1990s are proving to be a time, quite literally, of shifting territories in Europe - East and West. Both the revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989 and the breaking of economic boundaries in 1992 are creating a new Europe; a Europe in which old questions have to be re-asked and old assumptions revaluated. This "Feminist Review" special issue, "Shifting Territories", explores these political changes in all their complexity, and in particular looks at how these changes will affect women and feminism. "Feminist Review" employs its perspective to ask such pertinent questions as: how can we make sense of these major transformations? How should we respond to them? What part should feminists play in the new world order? Is it so "new"? With articles covering the relationship between nationalism and feminism, the women's movement in Eastern Europe, feminism and the crisis of socialism, this "Feminist Review" special issue explores these shifting territories and tries to make sense of the reverberations affecting all our lives. This book should be of interest to academics and students of women's studies, cultural studies, media studies and literature, as well as the general reader intere
This issue of Feminist Review is a general issue covering diverse topics on feminist theory and practice and contains reviews and letters. This book should be of interest to academics and students of women's studies, cultural studies, media studies, and readers interested in feminist thought.
First published in 1979, "Feminist Review" is one of the UK's leading socialist feminist journals. Produced three times a year by a London-based editorial collective, the journal publishes and reviews new work by women and offers a platform for debate on current issues in feminism. This issue focuses on women's attitudes to religion and the attitude of religions to women. Wide-ranging articles cover Christianity, Islam and Judaism, explore responses ranging from the Feminist Spirituality Movement to the struggle against fundamentalism, and examine the relationship between religion, national identity and racism. This book should be of interest to academics and students of women's studies, cultural studies, religion and literature; and to general readers interested in feminist thought.
This issue includes articles on the current differences and debates between feminists on the questions around pornography and censorship. This book should be of interest to general, as well as students of women's studies, women's history, sociology and literature by women.
Part of a series of journals which provides coverage of a wide spectrum of feminist subjects. This issue includes essays on feminist scholarship, the campaign against pornography, deviant dress, women in professional engineering and the interaction of gendered structures and values.
This special issue of "Feminist Review" maps the field of contemporary lesbian politics and culture and highlights lesbians' special contribution to debates at the heart of feminism. This book should be of interest to wide general as well as students and lecturers in the fields of women's studies, history, cultural studies, sociology.
This book should be of interest to a wide general readership students and lecturers in the fields of women's studies, history, cultural studies, sociology.
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